AOpen AX4G-N Online Manual

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Overview

Hardware

Installation

Drivers &

Utilities

AWARD

BIOS Setup

Glossary

Troubleshooting &

Technical Support

AX4G / AX4G-N

DOC. NO.: AX4GN-OL-E0207C

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AX4G / AX4G-N ...............................................................................................................................1

What’s in this manual ......................................................................................................................................................2

You Must Notice .............................................................................................................................................................. 9

Before You Start ............................................................................................................................................................ 10

Overview ....................................................................................................................................................................... 11

Feature Highlight........................................................................................................................................................... 12

Quick Installation Procedure ......................................................................................................................................... 16

Motherboard Map .......................................................................................................................................................... 17

Block Diagram............................................................................................................................................................... 18

Hardware Installation................................................................................................................19

About “Manufacturer Upgrade Optional” and “User Upgrade Optional”… ...................................................................... 20

JP14 Clear CMOS Data ................................................................................................................................................ 21

CPU Installation ............................................................................................................................................................ 22

CPU Jumper-less Design .............................................................................................................................................. 25

Full-range Adjustable CPU Core Voltage....................................................................................................................... 27

CPU and System Fan Connector (with H/W Monitoring) ............................................................................................... 30

JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wake-up Enable/Disable Jumper.............................................................................................. 31

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DIMM Sockets ............................................................................................................................................................... 32

Front Panel Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 34

ATX Power Connector ................................................................................................................................................... 35

AC Power Auto Recovery .............................................................................................................................................. 36

IDE and Floppy Connector ............................................................................................................................................ 37

IrDA Connector ............................................................................................................................................................. 39

S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) Connector......................................................................................................... 40

Super 5.1 Channel Audio Effect .................................................................................................................................... 41

AGP Slot ....................................................................................................................................................................... 42

AGP Protection Technology........................................................................................................................................... 43

WOM (Zero Voltage Wake on Modem) Connector......................................................................................................... 44

WOM by External BOX Modem ..................................................................................................................................... 45

WOM by Internal Modem Card ...................................................................................................................................... 46

WOL (Wake on LAN) ..................................................................................................................................................... 47

CNR (Communication and Network Riser) Expansion Slot............................................................................................ 49

PC99 Color Coded Back Panel ..................................................................................................................................... 50

Support 10/100 Mbps LAN onboard (AX4G-N only) ...................................................................................................... 51

Support Six USB2.0 Connectors ................................................................................................................................... 52

Chassis Intrusion Connector ......................................................................................................................................... 53

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CD Audio Connector ..................................................................................................................................................... 54

MODEM-CN Connector ................................................................................................................................................. 55

Front Audio Connector .................................................................................................................................................. 56

Dr. LED Connector ........................................................................................................................................................ 57

Battery-less and Long Life Design................................................................................................................................. 59

CPU Over-current Protection......................................................................................................................................... 60

Hardware Monitoring ..................................................................................................................................................... 61

AOConfig Utility............................................................................................................................................................. 62

Resetable Fuse ............................................................................................................................................................. 64

2200µF Low ESR Capacitor .......................................................................................................................................... 65

Layout (Frequency Isolation Wall) ................................................................................................................................. 66

Enlarged Aluminum Heatsink ........................................................................................................................................ 67

Driver and Utility .......................................................................................................................68

Auto-run Menu from Bonus CD Disc ............................................................................................................................. 69

Installing Intel® Chipset Software Installation Utility...................................................................................................... 70

Intel Brookdale-G VGA driver ........................................................................................................................................ 71

Installing Intel IAA Driver............................................................................................................................................... 72

Installing Onboard Sound Driver ................................................................................................................................... 73

Installing LAN Driver (AX4G-N only) ............................................................................................................................. 75

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Installing USB2.0 Driver ................................................................................................................................................ 76

Installing Hardware Monitoring Utility ............................................................................................................................ 79

ACPI Suspend to Hard Drive......................................................................................................................................... 80

ACPI Suspend to RAM (STR)........................................................................................................................................ 85

AWARD BIOS..............................................................................................................................87

About BIOS Function Description… .............................................................................................................................. 88

How To Use Award™ BIOS Setup Program................................................................................................................... 89

How To Enter BIOS Setup ............................................................................................................................................. 91

BIOS Upgrade under Windows environment ................................................................................................................. 92

Overclocking..............................................................................................................................94

VGA Card & Hard Disk .................................................................................................................................................. 95

Glossary .................................................................................................................................... 96

AC97 ............................................................................................................................................................................. 96

ACPI (Advanced Configuration & Power Interface) ....................................................................................................... 96

AGP (Accelerated Graphic Port).................................................................................................................................... 96

AMR (Audio/Modem Riser)............................................................................................................................................ 97

AOpen Bonus Pack CD ................................................................................................................................................. 97

APM (Advanced Power Management)........................................................................................................................... 97

ATA (AT Attachment) ..................................................................................................................................................... 97

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ATA/66 .......................................................................................................................................................................... 97

ATA/100 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 98

ATA/133 ........................................................................................................................................................................ 98

BIOS (Basic Input/Output System) ................................................................................................................................ 98

Bus Master IDE (DMA mode) ........................................................................................................................................ 99

CNR (Communication and Networking Riser)................................................................................................................ 99

CODEC (Coding and Decoding) .................................................................................................................................... 99

DDR (Double Data Rated) SDRAM ............................................................................................................................... 99

DIMM (Dual In Line Memory Module) .......................................................................................................................... 100

DMA (Direct Memory Access)...................................................................................................................................... 100

ECC (Error Checking and Correction) ......................................................................................................................... 100

EDO (Extended Data Output) Memory ........................................................................................................................ 100

EEPROM (Electronic Erasable Programmable ROM).................................................................................................. 101

EPROM (Erasable Programmable ROM)..................................................................................................................... 101

EV6 Bus ...................................................................................................................................................................... 101

FCC DoC (Declaration of Conformity) ......................................................................................................................... 101

FC-PGA (Flip Chip-Pin Grid Array) .............................................................................................................................. 101

Flash ROM .................................................................................................................................................................. 102

FSB (Front Side Bus) Clock ........................................................................................................................................ 102

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C Bus ........................................................................................................................................................................ 102

IEEE 1394................................................................................................................................................................... 103

Parity Bit ..................................................................................................................................................................... 103

PBSRAM (Pipelined Burst SRAM)............................................................................................................................... 103

PC-100 DIMM ............................................................................................................................................................. 104

PC-133 DIMM ............................................................................................................................................................. 104

PC-1600 or PC-2100 or PC-2700 DDR DRAM ............................................................................................................ 104

PCI (Peripheral Component Interface) Bus ................................................................................................................. 104

PDF Format................................................................................................................................................................. 104

PnP (Plug and Play) .................................................................................................................................................... 105

POST (Power-On Self Test) ........................................................................................................................................ 105

RDRAM (Rambus DRAM) ........................................................................................................................................... 105

RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module) ...................................................................................................................... 105

SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) .................................................................................................................................... 106

Shadow E

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PROM ........................................................................................................................................................ 106

SIMM (Single In Line Memory Module) ....................................................................................................................... 106

SMBus (System Management Bus)............................................................................................................................. 106

SPD (Serial Presence Detect) ..................................................................................................................................... 107

Ultra DMA ................................................................................................................................................................... 107

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USB (Universal Serial Bus) ......................................................................................................................................... 107

VCM (Virtual Channel Memory)................................................................................................................................... 108

ZIP file......................................................................................................................................................................... 108

Troubleshooting....................................................................................................................... 109

Technical Support ................................................................................................................... 113

Product Registration ............................................................................................................... 116

How to Contact Us .................................................................................................................. 117

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Adobe, the Adobe logo, Acrobat is trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated.

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Intel, the Intel logo, Intel Celeron, Pentium II, Pentium III, Pentium 4 are trademarks of Intel Corporation.

Microsoft, Windows, and Windows logo are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United

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No part of this document may be used or reproduced in any form or by any means, or stored in a database or retrieval

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This Online Manual will introduce to the user how this product is installed. All useful information will be described in later

chapters. Please keep this manual carefully for future upgrades or system configuration changes. This Online Manual is saved

in PDF format

, we recommend using Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 for online viewing, it is included in Bonus CD disc or you can

get free download from Adobe web site

.

Although this Online Manual is optimized for screen viewing, it is still capable for hardcopy printing, you can print it by A4 paper

size and set 2 pages per A4 sheet on your printer. To do so, choose File > Page Setup and follow the instruction of your printer

driver.

Thanks for the help of saving our earth.

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Thank you for choosing AOpen AX4G / AX4G-N motherboard. The AX4G / AX4G-N is Intel

®

Socket 478 motherboard (M/B)

based on the ATX form factor featuring the Intel® 845G (Brookdale-G) chipset

. As high performance chipset built in the M/B,

the AX4G / AX4G-N motherboard can support Intel

®

Socket 478 Pentium

®

4 (Brookdale-G) and 400/533 MHz Front Side Bus

(FSB) clock. In the AGP performance, it has one DVO / TV-OUT slot which supports DVO or TV-Out card, or 1.5V AGP

interface with 4x SBA/Data Transfer and 2x/4x Fast Write capability and pipelined spilt-transaction long burst transfer up to

1056MB/sec. According to different customer’s requirements, the Intel 845G chipset memory interface supports

DDR333/266/200 SDRAM devices with densities of 64, 128, 256, 512Mb DDR SDRAM DIMM modules and the maximum

memory size can be up to 2 GB (Please note that only

supports DDR333). The onboard IDE controller supports

33/66/100 mode and the transfer rate up to 100MB/s. F

flexibility can be ach

ur

ieved by taking advantage of

Communication and Network Riser (CNR)

card option that a

audio, modem configuration on a single baseboard design.

than that, on the strength of Intel 82562ET (Kinnereth) PH

board, which is an highly-integrated Platform LAN Con

device, it provides 10/100M bps Ethernet for office and

home use (AX4G-N only). Besides, the AX4G / AX4G-N

has an AC97

CODEC chipset onboard, providing high

performance and magic surround stereo sound to let

people enjoy working with it. Now, let’s enjoy all features

from AOpen AX4G / AX4G-N motherboard.

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Socket 478 Pentium

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4 (Brookdale-G) 1.4GHz~2.4GHz+ with 400/533MHz Front Side Bus (FSB)

CPU

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Chipset

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845G (Brookdale-G) chipset, Intel delivers a discrete graphics solution with all the performance, innovative

ven reliability of the Intel

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845G chipset. With its highly scalable design, in the AGP performance, it has one

xpansion Slots

MHz PCI, one CNR and one AGP 2X4X slots. The PCI

Socket 4 ch

With the In

features an

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DVO / TV-OUT slot which supports DVO or TV-Out card, or 1.5V AGP interface with 4x SBA/Data Transfer and 2x/4x Fast Write

capability and pipelined spilt-transaction long burst transfer up to 1056MB/sec. And the smart integration in the Intel 845G

chipset's I/O Controller Hub (ICH4) features USB controllers supporting six USB ports. With support for 5.1 channels of AC’97

audio and the ability to make the most of soft audio/modem technology, the 845G chipset delivers an ideal solution for

innovative new form factors.

E

Including six 32-bit/33 local bus throughput can be up to 132MB/s. The

ctworking Riser (CNR)

Communication & Ne

slot provided from AX4G / AX4G-N can support CNR interface for a Modem/Audio

card. The Accelerated Graphics Port (AGP)

specification provides a new level of video display sophistication and speed which

supports data transfer rate up to 1056MB/s. AX4G / AX4G-N motherboard can support 4X mode. Of six PCI slots provided, all of

them are master PCI slots with arbitration and decoding for all integrated functions and LPC bus.

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Memory

Provides three 184-pin DDR SDRAM DIMM sockets that support up to 2GB of PC-333/266/200 compliant DDR SDRAM

(Synchron

ous Dynamic Random Access Memory). You may install 64, 128, 256, 512MB DDR SDRAM DIMM modules into each

socket (Please note that only CPU FSB 533 supports DDR333).

LAN Port (AX4G-N only)

Ultra DMA 33/66/100 Bus Master IDE

On the strength of Intel 82562ET (Kinnereth) PHY on board, which is an highly-integrated Platform LAN Connect device, it

provides 10/100 Mbps Ethernet for office and home use.

Comes with an on-board PCI Bus Master IDE controller with two connectors that supports four IDE devices in two channels,

supports Ultra DMA

33/66/100, PIO Modes 3 and 4 and Bus Master IDE DMA Mode 5, and supports Enhanced IDE devices.

On-board AC’97 Sound

AX4G / AX4G-N uses the AC97 sound chip. This on-board audio includes a complete audio recording and playback system.

1MHz Stepping Frequency Adjustment

uency Adjustment” function in the BIOS. This magic function allows you adjust FSBProvides “1MHz Stepping Freq frequency

from 100~248 by 1MHz stepping adjustment, and lets your system can get maximum performance.

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Watch Dog Timer

can auto-reset default settings in 4.8 seconds when you fail to system

s

s (2.0)

Includes AOpen “Watch Dog Timer” function that

overclocking.

S/PDIF Connector

S/PDIF (Sony/Philips Digital Interface) is a newest audio transfer file format, which provides impressive quality through optical

fiber and allows you to enjoy digital audio instead of analog audio.

Six USB Connector

Provides three ports, six USB connectors for USB interface devices, such as mouse, keyboard, modem, scanner, etc. Compared

to traditional USB 1.0/1.1 with the speed of 12Mbps, USB 2.0 has a fancy speed up to 480Mbps, which is 40 times faster than

the traditional one.

Dr. LED (User Upgrade Optional)

The Dr. LED has 8 LEDs on this AX4G / AX4G-N M/B to easily show what kind of problems you may encounter.

AGP Protection Technology

ed, this motherboard will automatically detect the voltage of AGP card and prevent With AGP Protection Technology implement

your chipsets from being burnt out.

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Power Management/Plug and Play

nction that confirms to the power-saving standards of the U.S. Environmental Protection

. It also offers Plug-and-Play

Supports the power management fu

Agency (EPA) Energy Star program

, which helps save users from configuration problems, thus

making the system much user-friendlier.

Hardware Monitoring Management

Supports CPU or system fans status, temperature and voltage monitoring and alert, through the on-board hardware monitor

module.

Enhanced ACPI

Fully implement the ACPI standard for Windows

®

98/ME/2000/XP series compatibility, and supports Soft-Off, STR (Suspend to

RAM, S3), STD (Suspend to Disk, S4) features.

Super Multi-I/O

Provides two high-speed UART compatible serial ports and one parallel port with EPP and ECP capabilities. UART can also be

directed from COM1 to the Infrared Module for th wireless connections.

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This page gives you a quick procedure on how to install your system. Follow each step accordingly.

1. Installing CPU and Fan

2. Installing System Memory (DIMM)

3. Connecting Front Panel Cable

4. Connecting IDE and Floppy Cable

5. Connecting ATX Power Cable

6. Connecting Back Panel Cable

7. Power-on and Load BIOS Setup Default

8. Setting CPU Frequency

9.

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Reboot

Installing Operating System (such as Windows 98)

Installing Driver and Utility

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Motherboard Map

PC99 Colored Back Panel

Resetable Fuse

478-pin CPU

(for 1.5V AGP card or ADD

card onl

y)

JP14 CMOS Clear Jumper

Onboard AC’97 CODEC

4Mbit Flash ROM

COM2 Connector

CNR Expansion Slot

Front Panel Connector

FAN3 Connector

2

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& 3

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USB2.0 Connector

Dr. LED Connector

Front Audio Connector

184-pin DIMMx3 supports

DDR333/DDR266/DDR200

(Max. to 2GB)

ATA/33/66/100

IDE Connector x2

FDD Connector

ATX Power Connector

CPU

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and Frequency Auto-detection tha

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4-pin 12V. ATX Power Connector

32-bit PCI Expansion Slot x6

Chassis Intrusion Connector

2200

μ

F Low ESR Capacitors

WOM Connector

WOL Connector

FAN2 Connector

S/PDIF Connector

MODEM-CN Connector

JP28 Keyboard/Mouse Wakeup

Enable/Disable Jum

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er

CD-IN Connector

IrDA Connector

Intel 82562ET (Kinnereth) PHY

(

For AX4G-N onl

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Intel 845

GMCH

Socket 478

Intel

Pentium 4

CPU

400/533MHz

System Bus

DIMM Socket x3

AGP 4x Expansion Slot

Intel ICH4

Serial Port x2

2

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USB Port

1

st

USB Port

USB 2.0

Connector x6

32-bit PCI Slot x6

Parallel Port

IDE Drive x4

ATA

33/66100

PC-333/266/200 DDR

SDRAM Up to 2GB

Primary

Channel

Secondary

Channel

4Mbit Flash EEPROM

AC Link

PCI Bus

CNR Slot

Firmware Hub

Low Pin

Count

Super

I/O

Floppy Disk Drive x2

AC97

CODEC

3

rd

USB Port

Intel

82562ET

(Kinnereth

PHY)

LAN connect Component

(AX4G-N only)

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This chapter describes jumpers, connectors and hardware devices of this motherboard.

Note: Electrostatic discharge (ESD) can damage your processor, disk drives, expansion boards, and

other components. Always observe the following precautions before you install a system component.

1. Do not remove a component from its protective packaging until you are ready to install it.

2. Wear a wrist ground strap and attach it to a metal part of the system unit before handling a

component. If a wrist strap is not available, maintain contact with the system unit throughout any

procedure requiring ESD protection.

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When you read this online manual and start to assemble your computer system, you may find some of functions are called

“Manufacturer Upgrade Optional”, and some are called “User Upgrade Optional”. Though all AOpen motherboards include many

amazing and powerful features, in some situations, these powerful features are not used to every user. Hence, we changed

some key features as “Manufacturer Upgrade Optional” for you to choose. Some optional functions that can be upgraded by

users, we call them “User Upgrade Optional”. As for those optional functions that can’t be upgraded by ourselves, we call them

“Manufacturer Upgrade Optional”. If needed, you can contact our local distributors or resellers for purchasing “User Upgrade

Optional” components, and again you can visit AOpen official web site: english.aopen.com.tw

for more detail information.

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